Re: [PERFORM] 8xIntel S3500 SSD in RAID10 on Dell H710p

2014-12-16 Thread Strahinja Kustudić
> > - disk cache settings (EnDskCache - for SSD should be on or you're going > to lose 90% of your performance) > Disk cache is enabled, I know there is a huge performance impact. > - OS settings e.g. > > echo noop > /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler > echo 975 > /sys/block/sda/queue/nr_requests >

Re: [PERFORM] 8xIntel S3500 SSD in RAID10 on Dell H710p

2014-12-16 Thread Graeme B. Bell
> > I have a beast of a Dell server with the following specifications: > • 4x Xeon E5-4657LV2 (48 cores total) > • 196GB RAM > • 2x SCSI 900GB in RAID1 (for the OS) > • 8x Intel S3500 SSD 240GB in RAID10 > • H710p RAID controller, 1GB cache > Centos 6.6, RAID10 SSDs u

Re: [PERFORM] 8xIntel S3500 SSD in RAID10 on Dell H710p

2014-12-12 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Strahinja Kustudić wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Mark Kirkwood > wrote: >> >> That is interesting: I've done some testing on this type of card with 16 >> (slightly faster Hitachi) SSD attached. Setting WT and NORA should enable >> the so-called 'fastpa

Re: [PERFORM] 8xIntel S3500 SSD in RAID10 on Dell H710p

2014-12-10 Thread Mark Kirkwood
On 10/12/14 21:30, Strahinja Kustudić wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Mark Kirkwood < mark.kirkw...@catalyst.net.nz> wrote: That is interesting: I've done some testing on this type of card with 16 (slightly faster Hitachi) SSD attached. Setting WT and NORA should enable the so-called 'f

Re: [PERFORM] 8xIntel S3500 SSD in RAID10 on Dell H710p

2014-12-10 Thread Strahinja Kustudić
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Mark Kirkwood < mark.kirkw...@catalyst.net.nz> wrote: > That is interesting: I've done some testing on this type of card with 16 > (slightly faster Hitachi) SSD attached. Setting WT and NORA should enable > the so-called 'fastpath' mode for the card [1]. We saw per

Re: [PERFORM] 8xIntel S3500 SSD in RAID10 on Dell H710p

2014-12-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
On 10/12/14 12:28, Strahinja Kustudić wrote: * These tests are with the H710p controller set to write-back (WB) and with adaptive read ahead (ADRA). I ran a few tests with write-through (WT) and no read ahead (NORA), but the results were worse. That is interesting: I've done some tes

[PERFORM] 8xIntel S3500 SSD in RAID10 on Dell H710p

2014-12-09 Thread Strahinja Kustudić
I have a beast of a Dell server with the following specifications: - 4x Xeon E5-4657LV2 (48 cores total) - 196GB RAM - 2x SCSI 900GB in RAID1 (for the OS) - 8x Intel S3500 SSD 240GB in RAID10 - H710p RAID controller, 1GB cache Centos 6.6, RAID10 SSDs uses XFS (mkfs.xfs -i size=512